Re: [Bug-tar] question

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

ÅñÄ <address@hidden> wrote:

> when I did the operation "tar zxvf /e/*...",the error note is "tar:Old option 
> 'f'
> requires an argument"

There is no file that match your regular expression (/e/*). Notice,
that it useless (and extremely unsafe if combined with 'c') to use
regexp as argument to 'f' option. Always specify explicitely the name
of the archive to operate upon.

Regards,
Sergey